Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10


hovers over the soul, when the waves of
trial dash clear over the hurricane deck
and the docks are crowded with piratical
disasters-Oh, what would you do then
without Christ in the ship? Young man,
! take God for your portion, God for your
/ guide, God for your help; then all IS well,
all is well for time, al shall be well for
ever. Blessed is that man who puts in
the Lord his trust. He shall
| NEVER BE COMPOUNDED.
But my subject also impresses me with
the fact that when people start to follow
Chiist they must not expect smooth sail
ing.
/ boats, and l have no doubt they said:
"What beautiful day this is! What
smooth sea WHIST q bright sky this is
How delightful Is sailing in this boat,
And as 10 the waves under the keel Of
the boat, why, they only make the motion
of our little boat the more delightful"
But when the winds swept down, and the
! sea was tossed into wrath, then they
! found that following Christ was not
| smooth sailing. So you have found II;
| 50 l have found it. Did you ever notice
! the end Of the life OF the apostles of
Jesus Christ? You would say if ever
men ought to have hSd g smooth life, g
smooth departure, then those men, the
| disciples Of Jesus Christ, ought to have
! had such departure and such 9 life.
| St. James lost his head. St. EPhilip
was hung to death on q pillar. st. Mat-
| thew had mis- life dashed out with hal
bert. St. Mark was dragged TO death
through the streets. St. James the Less
was beaten TO death with q fuller's CLUB.
st. Thomas was struck through with q
spear. They did not find following
Christ smooth sailing. On, how they
were al tossed in the TEMPEST! John
Huss in the fire, Hugh McKail in the
hour of martyrdom, the Albigenses, the
Waldenses, the Scotch Covenanters-did
they find it smooth sailing?
But why go to history when l can
come into this audience to-day and
find g score of illustrations of
the truth of this subject? That
young man in the store try
ing TO serve God, while his employer
SCOTS at Christianity; the young men in
the same store antagonistiC to the Chris
tian religion, teasing him, tormenting
him about his religion,
TRYING TO GET HIM MAD.
They succeed in getting him mad, say
ing: "YOu're pretty Christian" Does
this young man find it smooth sailing
when he tries to follow Christ? Here is
g Christian girl. Her father despises the
Christian religion; her mother despises
the Christian religion; her brothers and
sisters scof at the Christian religion; she
can hardly find quiet place in which so
say her prayers. Did she find it smooth
sailing when she tried to follow Jesus
Christ? Oh, no; all who would live the
life OF the Christian religion must suffer
persecution; if you 90 not find it in one
way, you will get il in another way.
The question vas asked: "WhO are
those nearest the tbrOne?" and the an
swer came back; "These ere they who
come up out of great tribuIation great
failing as the original has it; great fail |
ing, great pOunding) and had their robes |
washed and made white III the blood OF
the Lamb Oh, do not be dishearteIed, /
On, child Of God, take courage. You are |
in glorious COmpaniOnship God will see
you through all these trials, and he will .
deliver you.
My subject also impresses nae with the /
fact that good people sometimes get very |
much frightened.
In the tones of these disciples as they |
rushed into the back part of the boat, 1
find they are frightened almost to death. .
They say: "Master, carest thou not that |
WeSperish?" They had no reason to be |
frightened, for Christ was in the boat. l /
suppose if we had been there we would .
have been Just as much affrighted. Per-
haps more.
In all ages very good people get very
much affrightened. 1t is often so in our
dgy, and men say "Why, look at the
bad lectures; look at the spiritualistic
societies; look at the various errors 60
ing over the Church of God; we are go
ing to founder; the Church is
GOING TO PERISH;
she is going down" Oh, how many good
people are affrightened by Iniquity in our
dag, and think the church Of Jesus
Christ is going to be overthroWn, and are
just as much afrightened as we're deci-
pies of my text. Don't worry, don't fret,
as though iniquity was going to triumph
over righteousness.
a lion goes into cavern to sleep, He
lies down with his shaggy name covering
the paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin
web across the mouth of the cavern, and
say: eve have captured him" Gossa-
mer thread after gossamer thread is spun
uuJAI VIC NuOA6 lIOuS VI LuG CdNGLu 10
covered with the spiders web, and the
spiders say: "The lion is done; the lion
is fast" After while the lion has got
through sleeping; he rouses himself, ne
shakes his name, we walks out into the
sunlight; he does not even know the
spiders web is spun, and with his voice
he shakes the mountain.
So men come spinning their sophistries
and skeptiCism about Jesus Christ; He
seems to be sleeping. They say: owe
have captured the Lord; He will never
come forth again upon the nation; Christ
is captured forever. His religion will
never make any conquest among men,"
But after while the lion of the Tribe of
Judah will rouse himself and come forth
to shake nightly the nations. What's
9 SPIDERS web to the aroused lion? Give
truth and error g fair grspple, and truth
will come off victor.
But there are great many good peo-
pie who get afrightened in other respects;
they are affrightened in our day about re-
vivals. They say: "Oh! this is strong
religious gale; we are afraid the Church
Of God is going to be upset, and there are
going to be great many people brought
into the church that are going 10 be of {
NO USE TO IT"
and they are affrightened whenever they
see O revival taking hold of the churches.
As Though g ship captain with 5000
bushels of wheat for cargo should say
some day, coming upon deck; "Throw
overheard all CARGO" and the sailors